Calling someone an "enabler" of "dark triad bullshit" after snarkily misrepresenting their comment in the nastiest way is...certainly a personal attack by HN standards. Not only that but it's all-internet-tropes—something else the HN guidelines ask you to avoid.
I referenced comments from this year, 2 years ago, and 5 years ago to make the point that this has been a problem for a long time. There's more where that came from (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31213019 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079646). Worse, you've been either breaking or (let's call it) stretching the site guidelines in many of your other recent comments. That's not good.
But I didn't ban you because I saw other comments, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187694 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971535, which are within the intended spirit of HN—especially the latter one, which struck me as thoroughly decent. Moderation has to go by the worst things people post, not the best things, but I always stretch to avoid banning someone who posts good things like that.
If you'll post more of those good things and fewer nasty things and especially avoid attacking others in the future, that would be a good improvement.
I referenced comments from this year, 2 years ago, and 5 years ago to make the point that this has been a problem for a long time. There's more where that came from (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31213019 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20079646). Worse, you've been either breaking or (let's call it) stretching the site guidelines in many of your other recent comments. That's not good.
But I didn't ban you because I saw other comments, like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41187694 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40971535, which are within the intended spirit of HN—especially the latter one, which struck me as thoroughly decent. Moderation has to go by the worst things people post, not the best things, but I always stretch to avoid banning someone who posts good things like that.
If you'll post more of those good things and fewer nasty things and especially avoid attacking others in the future, that would be a good improvement.